When people outside of education talk about comprehensive school safety planning, it can sometimes sound theoretical: A checklist of protocols or a compliance exercise. For those of us working in ...

Afua Hirsch (Free education is disappearing before our eyes, 28 November) contrasts the current state of education with that ushered in by the 1944 Education Act, which she writes established ...

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“The aim of the comprehensive school reform was to increase social equality. The purpose was that educational opportunities would no longer be limited by the parents’ position or place of residence,” ...